Yzaura Vanegas is a director, producer and trainer of interactive live events for Nickelodeon and the host, producer and writer of the podcast How About A Story. This season on her podcast she wrote her first audio drama where she combined her love for fairy tales and true crime together to create season 4 Following the Big Bad Wolf: A true crime investigation in Fairytale Land.

Make sure to subscribe to her podcast: How About a Story and visit her website at https://www.howaboutastory.com/. 

One rainy day and a flat tire later, Jonathan’s life would change forever when car troubles inspired him to write a book. In March 2016, Jonathan published his debut book, “Master of Ceremonies: A Male’s Guide for a Successful Life." In February 2020, he became the owner of Jharris Publishing, LLC to help more aspiring authors feel comfortable telling their story. In July 2020, Jonathan released his 2nd and 3rd books "Growing Gents" and "Girls With Pearls." Learn more at https://www.authorjon.com/. 

Raised in Fort Washington, Maryland, Jonathan C. Harris is no stranger to leadership, hard work, or success. At the age of ten years old, he earned the right to be a guest weatherman for a day on Fox 5 DC News. He has already received over 100 honors and awards including Forty Under 40 for Prince George’s County, MD, TEDx Talk speaker, TEDxFortWashington Founder, American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Outstanding Men’s Program, high school Valedictorian and the Kiwanis Club Citizenship Award. 

Jennifer Dupee's debut novel, The Little French Bridal Shop, was published by St. Martin's Press on March 9, 2021. Visit her website to order a copy: https://www.jenniferdupee.com/. 

Jennifer is a graduate of Brown University, where she received her honors in Creative Writing.  She is an active member of the Grub Street writing community in Boston and has published in The Feminist Press.  She was a semi-finalist for the 2016 James Jones First Novel Competition and a semi-finalist for the 2016 Faulkner-Wisdom competition.  Jennifer lives in a historic house just outside of Boston with her family and is currently at work on her next two novels.

Emily Edwards is the creator and host of a comedy podcast about books where she and a guest discuss toxic personalities from the world of Western lit. FBOL can be found on all podcast platforms. When Emily isn’t reading or chatting about books, she is writing her own. She specializes in historical mysteries with a modern, feminist twist.

Rachel Sharona Lewis is an accidental mystery novelist. By day, she organizes faith communities in the Boston area around local social justice efforts. In her free time, she enjoys reading fiction and non-fiction alike, attending committee meetings and playing the trombone. She lives in Watertown, MA with her wife, Liz.

She just published her first book “The Rabbi who Prayed with Fire”. Her website is https://www.rachelsharonalewis.com/. 

Luke Morey is a Hofstra Alumni from the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, who's always had a passion for the art of storytelling. Whether it's a novel, movie, tv show, comic book, Luke loves dissecting how the author has to adjust and perform their story in a unique way to whatever medium they choose.

He currently lives in New Hampshire doing freelance editing work for Ambiguous Podcast Solutions. He also has his own podcast, Midnight Showing, in which the hosts review movies from the 80's and 90's.

You can find Luke on social media @midnightshowingpodcast.

Sara Letourneau is a poet and freelance book editor and writing coach. Her poems have been published in online and print literary journals (check out this link here for her online index), and one of her goals in 2021 is to compile a manuscript for her first full-length poetry collection. Sara also blogged for several years at writing resource websites such as DIY MFA and Writers Helping Writers. She launched Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services in 2019 and have since helped authors self-publish their books, finish or get started on their writing projects, and feel more confident in themselves.

Graduated from Curry College (outside Boston, Massachusetts) with a BA in English Literature and Writing, earned a Certificate in Copyediting from Emerson College, and worked 10+ years as a copy editor in the corporate world, all while pursuing freelance and creative writing on the side.

Tim Whelan Jr. is a sports journalist with 15 years of experience in the field. Tim spent 11 years with the MetroWest Daily News sports team, from correspondent, to weekly editor, to staff writer, to Patriots beat writer and columnist. And after a two-year stint out in Denver, Colo., as a sports blogger with USA TODAY and the regional director for Gatorade’s Player of the Year through 3Step Sports, he returned to the Wicked Local family in 2018 as the regional director of sports where he overseen the digital transformation of the sports departments in Eastern Mass. 

Dan Cagen worked at Metrowest daily news, local paper in Framingham, MA for 6 years as a sports writer and editor, where he met Tim. Mostly covered high school sports as well as 4 seasons as the Boston Bruins beat reporter for the paper. Dan has since transitioned out of sports writing in the last 5 years and graduated in 2020 with a marketing analytics degree from Bentley University.

Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is currently a staff writer for the New York Times' Wirecutter and a blogger at BoingBoing, as well as the singer/guitarist of the Roland High Life. As a journalist and political commentator, Thom has appeared on several national and international radio programs discussing issues ranging from gun violence to climate change to the Irish language, and his writing has appeared on Upworthy, the Weather Channel, Vice, and more. He is also a Huntington Playwriting Fellow, whose work has been commissioned by Cornell University and performed and read in cities from Boston to New York to Hollywood to Alaska.

Visit his website at www.thomdunn.info and find him on social @thomdunn. 

​Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Zorana studies the role of emotion and emotion skills in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills.

​Zorana has collaborated with colleagues from Denmark, Spain, China, and Croatia and published her research in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Sex Roles, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior, Career Development International and others. She is Associate Editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, received a doctorate from the University of New Hampshire (with Dr. Jack Mayer, co-creator of the theory of emotional intelligence), and did postdoctoral research at the Interpersonal Communication and Interaction laboratory at Tufts University (with Dr. Nalini Ambady who pioneered research on thin slices of behavior).

Her website is https://www.zoranaivcevicpringle.com/.